David Cook in Des Moines

David Cook is an American rock singer-songwriter, born in Houston and raised in Blue Springs, Missouri, who won the seventh season of American Idol in 2008. His best-known recordings include “The Time of My Life,” “Light On” and “Come Back to Me,” while his albums include the independent Analog Heart, the self-titled David Cook and This Loud Morning. The 2008 American Idols Live! Tour took him to arenas across North America with the season’s other finalists. He followed it with the Declaration Tour in 2009, then supported This Loud Morning on a 2011 co-headlining tour with Gavin DeGraw.